All Articles

Earning a PhD at 26, Xu Ying became one of the key scientists behind BeiDou, China’s GPS-equivalent navigation system, while pushing back against stereotypes about women in science. The 43-year-old scientist was born in Sichuan Province to a mathematics teacher mother and an agricultural technician father, according to the South China Morning Post. Chinese scientist Xu Ying, a key figure behind the BeiDou Navigation Satellite System Fascinated by mathematics and physics from